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Originally Posted by BenRoethig
Are you insane. We did that once and have regreted it every second since. We and the Russians knew exactlt what they do and came close to using them several times. The Iranians see them as a supreme gift from God. I lived through the closing days of the cold war were almost every U.S. unit was carrying tactical or strategic nukes. The threat went away and they got locked in a bunker instead of a Mk41 VLS tube aboard a tico. I don't want to go back there, but if Iran gets nukes, it's exactly were we'll be.
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regretted? yes a lot of civillians died that and USA regretted it. It ended the war a lot quicker than it would have and with a lot less fatalaties then would have without full US invasion of Japan which would have taken another 4 months.
I don't know why everyone here is speaking as if the US is going to take the first miliatary action over Iran. It will obviously be Israel a few weeks after sanctions are imposed. Don't worry about the US using nukes, the worry is Israel. If Israel gets hit with a retaliation missile strike from Iran after the pre emptive strike then i find it difficult to believe Israel won't use nukes. They can't let their small country get to badly battered.